As staff members become less active due to varying reasons, the staff is looking for new moderators to increase the amount we currently have.
Please follow the below link if you feel like you can help sustain the Discovery community as a forum moderator.
Keep in mind that this is a position that takes dedication and time. We all have real lives, so if you have doubts about being able to stick around, that is fine.
As with the last time, you are free to comment on other people who may or may not have applied to be a moderator as well. This always helps us select. However, if you do select someone to recommend, do not do it because they are your friend but because you suspect them to excell as a moderator.
I feel it should be emphasised that being a forum moderator doesn't give you power over anything other than being a tool for enforcing the forum rules. It shouldn't go without saying but I don't trust many of the people in this community to not accidentally fall into confirmation bias against certain individuals.
Also I'm not applying. I personally don't have an interest in moderating the forum. somewhat contrary to what I just said, it seems people follow the forum rules well without much guidance.
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(06-15-2020, 09:50 PM)Hubjump Wrote: I feel it should be emphasised that being a forum moderator doesn't give you power over anything other than being a tool for enforcing the forum rules.
I don't think this is accurate. Mods get to vote and provide input on a lot of staff decisions.
Staff decisions for what? If it's to do with balance and story, talking to mods who don't specialise in those areas could be harmful to many things in game. If the community can't be trusted as a whole to vote on things that you'd make a special senate for then maybe it'd be better to have a new role for that kind of input. We already know certain people are inquired about their regions of space they specialise rp in.
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(06-15-2020, 10:00 PM)Hubjump Wrote: Staff decisions for what? If it's to do with balance and story, talking to mods who don't specialise in those areas could be harmful to many things in game. If the community can't be trusted as a whole to vote on things that you'd make a special senate for then maybe it'd be better to have a new role for that kind of input. We already know certain people are inquired about their regions of space they specialise rp in.
On top of basic forum moderation, mods get to (among other things) provide input on violation reports (most of which don't involve the forum), player requests, faction requests, SRPs, POB upgrade requests, can approve new user creation on the forums, and (IIRC) can approve username changes on the forums. I'm not proposing a new thing that new mods would be involved in, I'm describing long-standing practice.
The staff do not just sit on our hands all day and wait for the next request to come along, we have a backlog of forum requests that hovers around something like 60-100 at any given time (a non-trivial percent of this is dev requests which mods don't usually get involved in to be fair). We need people to be involved in processing these.
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